by Full Spectrum Marketing | Apr 5, 2017 | content strategy
During the week of February 6, 2017, Huffington Post – one of the most successful online-first publications in our still short history of the Internet – posted content on 10 media platforms over seven days. In total, HuffPo added 1,665 posts to the Internet over that...
by Full Spectrum Marketing | Mar 29, 2017 | Digital Marketing
“Digital advertising sucks.” This is the mantra shouted by many top advertisers over the past year. First it was Procter & Gamble last year. You know, that company that just so happens to be the largest advertiser in the United States. P&G tried an early...
by Full Spectrum Marketing | Mar 28, 2017 | Advertising, Digital Marketing
By default, I view the world through a prism of marketing intrigue. The result is I tend to examine nearly everything I see with a perceived (or real) angle, and most of the information I consume becomes either analysis or inspiration. Over the years, I have found...
by Full Spectrum Marketing | Mar 1, 2017 | Marketing, SEO
We cover a lot of ground in On Marketing. An area we have underserved a bit over the past few months is search. Especially organic search. It would be wrong to assume that we haven’t covered that because search is increasingly irrelevant. It’s not. In fact, recent...
by Full Spectrum Marketing | Feb 6, 2017 | Advertising
I like football. But I love advertising. So, when it comes to the Super Bowl, I actually do prefer watching the ads to the game. I found this out about myself years ago, when I would unconsciously shush people when the ads came on, but gab away during the game action....
by Full Spectrum Marketing | Oct 20, 2016 | Marketing
If you see your marketing as an expense, it’s just a line item on your budget. That’s about it. You know you need to do marketing, so you pay for some. It’s not a daily thought, it’s not something you check up on a lot, it’s just something that gets done. A task to...
by Full Spectrum Marketing | Oct 12, 2016 | Brand, Marketing
With so many highly measurable digital marketing tools and fancy mobile marketing programs and data-based marketing models it’s pretty easy to forget about the old standby marketing methods. For example, when was the last time you considered the value of...
by Full Spectrum Marketing | Oct 6, 2016 | content marketing
Let’s talk about autopilot advertising, and advertising equity. Autopilot Advertising Earlier this week the guy who handles our pest control came through the office. The office was abuzz with our usual chatter and meetings and whatnot. In our focused state, it was...
by Full Spectrum Marketing | Sep 7, 2016 | Audience, Marketing
A recent study published by the Pew Research Center reported that the number of Americans who read a physical book in the past year is 65 percent. That number is largely unchanged from the last time this study was conducted four years ago. Perhaps more surprisingly,...
by Full Spectrum Marketing | Jul 20, 2016 | Technology
You pick up your newspaper to get the day’s news. The paper has a bunch of ads, and you notice one for the telephone. The ad makes sense, because it’s early in the 20th Century. You don’t have a telephone yet – only the fancy people have one. The ad is designed to...